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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Pre-English
Reliability
Funding
Stanine Scores
2. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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3. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Modern English
Derived Score
Components of Reading Instruction
Visual Learners
4. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Criterion-Referenced Test
Achievement test
VC
[-'le
5. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
WRAT
Comprehension
Auditory Processing
Texas Education Code 28.06
6. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Anna Gillingham
Accuracy
Keith Stanovich
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
7. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Receptive language
Standard Scores
Age equivalent
V-e
8. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Syllable
Affix
Norm-Referenced Test
Towre
9. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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10. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Phonics
Tilde
CTOPP
Top-down Reading Approach
11. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Synthetic Instruction
ADHD
Grapheme
Phonological Awareness
12. English as a second language
James Hinshelwood
ESL
Sound Symbol Association
Chall's Stage 4
13. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Funding
Criterion-Referenced Test
WIATII
Receptive language
14. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Funding
Auditory Learners
RTI
NICHD
15. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
James Hinshelwood
Chall's Stage 0
Funding
16. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Direct Instruction
Synthetic Instruction
Phonics
Sight Words
17. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Base Word
Mastery level
V >
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
18. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Standard Scores
Consonant
Phonemic/ decodable words
19. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
The Norman Conquest
Norm-referenced tests
Samuel T. Orton
Rate
20. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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21. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Morphology
Consonant
Criterion-Referenced Test
Linguistic Method
22. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Great Vowel Shift
Combination
ESL
Norm-Referenced Test
23. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Diagnostic tests
24. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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25. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Expressive language
Consonant Digraph
Grade equivalents
Norm-referenced tests
26. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
CTOPP
Chall's Stage 1
Morpheme
Diphthong
27. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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28. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Chall's Stage 4
Age equivalent
Expressive language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
29. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Diphthong
Cognition
Phoneme
30. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
ESL
Universal Screening
Vowel
Trigraph
31. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
[-'le
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Tilde
Impulsivity
32. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Battery
Old English
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
33. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Auditory Processing
[-'le
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Visual Processing
34. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Social language
Diagnostic tests
Criterion-Referenced Test
WIATII
35. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Chall's Stage 4
Accuracy
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
WIATII
36. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Standard deviation
VV
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Vowel Digraph
37. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Expressive language
Pre-English
Greek layer of language
V-e
38. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Chall's Stage 5
Combination
Chall's Stage 0
39. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Latin layer of language
Middle English
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
IMSLEC
40. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Top-down Reading Approach
Grapheme
Consonant Digraph
41. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Towre
Stanine Scores
42. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Greek layer of language
Comprehension
Norm-referenced tests
Profile
43. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Attention
Phonology
Percentile/ percentile rank
Macron
44. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Pre-English
Chall's Stage 5
Derived Score
Modern English
45. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Synthetic Instruction
Raw score
Age equivalent
Old English
46. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Frank Smith
The Norman Conquest
Trigraph
Derivative
47. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Analytic
James Hinshelwood
RTI
Accuracy
48. Closed syllable
Percentile/ percentile rank
VC
Raw score
RTI
49. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
Chall's Stage 4
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Grade equivalents
50. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Vr
Multi-Sensory Approach
Visual Learners
Stanine Scores